MedStar Health Blog

MedStar Health Research Institute is planning research initiatives that could make childbirth and recovery safer in D.C. and beyond.   Pregnancy puts a significant stress on the cardiovascular s...

One in four men in the U.S. die from a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While heart disease is a leading cause of death across...

MedStar Health Research Institute’s study suggests a machine learning algorithm could help identify patients at risk of cardiovascular disease earlier in pregnancy, opening a window to intervene. &nb...

Research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality examines the problem of misdiagnosis of heart disease in women from multiple perspectives and develops solutions to make a difference...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heart muscle disease that causes the heart to enlarge and the muscular walls of the heart to become thin and weak, so the heart cannot properly pump blood to the res...

Heart failure is a common cardiac diagnosis and one of the leading causes of hospitalization in the United States. You may be surprised to learn that there are gender differences in heart failure, fr...